The Wise Men

By

David Wessel Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 3, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

The quiet words of wise men and women can be hard to hear when global television networks and the Internet allow those who speak loudest, and often most intemperately, to dominate public discourse. To counter that, The Wall Street Journal recently sought out economists who have been awarded the Nobel Prize -- certified wise men.

We asked them, among other things, which country in the world comes closest to getting economic policy...